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Treating Parkinson's with a faecal transplant

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Nick King, Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, UK

You report that an imbalance in the gut's ability to repopulate itself with new neurons and clear out the dead ones could lead to Parkinson's disease (10 November, p 7) and that the disease may start in the appendix and travel to the brain (10 November, p 18).

I wonder whether anyone has considered doing a faecal transplant from a young person to someone with the first signs of Parkinson's? This relatively simple procedure is being performed at an ever greater rate. It surely can't exacerbate the disease.

The editor writes:• We have previously reported on faecal transplants easing the symptoms of …